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James McCracken
History Lesson
Simply
chaos, everything
canceled out,
thousands of velocities
thrive—
placid
the eye
turned,
sliced the first form.
The Peril of Travel
Back
from such a distance
to the same
dissonant chair,
to this precarious desk
between Scylla and Charybdis,
with the littered pyre
of selves in books
and clumsy scratchings of experience.
I begin the pruning:
underneath,
ashes.
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